On Monday evening, St. Petersburg police detained several participants and opponents of the rally in support of Ukrainian serviceman Nadezhda Savchenko, who was arrested in Russia on charges of murdering VGTRK journalists near Lugansk in the summer of 2014, reports the online publication Fontanka. announcing Savchenko’s sentence on Thursday The Donetsk City Court of the Rostov Region began .

On Saturday, March 19, private security officers in St. Petersburg detained a 63-year-old man, from whom, during an inspection, they found and seized about 300 grams of methadone. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The detachments of the private security detention group detained the pensioner at about 09:00 while on patrol near house No. 24 on Dmitrov Street.

Police in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg detained a 40-year-old man who in February beat his 68-year-old neighbor and shot him with a traumatic pistol. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The incident occurred on the evening of February 27, 2016 on the landing of house No. 12 on Shlisselburgsky Avenue in St. Petersburg.

In Moscow, a criminal case of negligence (Part 1 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code) was opened against the assistant on duty of the head of pre-trial detention center No. 5 after the prisoner escaped. this TASS reports with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office. According to the department, on January 13, 2016, 22-year-old citizen of Tajikistan Maruf Odinaev, arrested on charges of drug trafficking, escaped from pre-trial detention center-5.

Those who arrived in the morning at the Vladimir Central building are relatives of prisoner Khamzat Aushev, who did not know about his condition for several days after he was injured. TASS about this . told Human Rights Commissioner for the Vladimir Region Lyudmila Romanova, who visited Aushev today, “The relatives are asking, in my opinion, quite fair questions: why weren’t they notified and why didn’t they get a lawyer?

Investigators from Bogdanovich have identified the man whose skeleton was recently found in the forest near the Yekaterinburg-Tyumen highway. His identity was established thanks to photographs taken on Polaroid, which were found in the pocket of the deceased’s clothes, reports the online publication E1.ru, citing Alexander Usov, senior investigator of the local department of the Investigative Committee.

In Voronezh, a 40-year-old local resident, a native of Omsk, was detained on suspicion of murdering a random acquaintance at a public transport stop, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. The detainee confessed. By court decision he was taken into custody. Soon he will be charged in a criminal case of murder (Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code).

Four lawyers specializing in road accident cases from opposing groups staged a fight with shooting from a traumatic weapon near the regional loss settlement center of the Rosgosstrakh company on the outskirts of Rostov-on-Don, reports . Interfax “As a result, one of the participants in the brawl was wounded in the shoulder. The incident is being handled by the police,” said a representative of a branch of the insurance company.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for abuse of power (points “b”, “c” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) against a policeman who shot a driver in the Moscow region, according to the Investigative Committee’s website. The REN-TV television channel today published a video from the scene of the incident, which shows that the car that the police were pursuing did not try to hit the police officer.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation investigation into the death of a 69-year-old pensioner, who had been waiting for help for more than an hour and a half with a heart attack in the emergency room of the city hospital of Krasnoturinsk, Sverdlovsk region. According to the department's press service, investigators are looking into whether hospital employees committed negligence. an investigation The city prosecutor's office is also conducting .

Today at four o'clock in the morning in St. Petersburg, three unknown people in sportswear, with scarves on their faces and a stick entered the Labyrinth store on Yesenin Street, reports . Fontanka.ru They beat up the guards and tried to open the cash register. At this time, the store controller took the panic button in his hand, but the robber noticed it. Unable to operate the cash register, the unknown persons beat up a store employee, took the button from him and ran away.

A court in the Nizhny Novgorod region sentenced a Muscovite to three years of suspended imprisonment, who in the summer of 2015 bought a child via the Internet from a resident of the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. The court found the Moscow resident guilty of buying and selling a minor child (points “b, h” of Part 2 of Article 127.1 of the Criminal Code).

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia has instructed the prosecutor of Dagestan to conduct an investigation into information about ill-treatment of pupils of the care orphanage for mentally retarded children. to According the department’s website, the reason for the inspection was an appeal from State Duma deputy Rizvan Kurbanov. The prosecutor's office will also inspect all institutions for orphans in the republic.

In Tatarstan, a criminal investigation into the death of Olga Zhuravleva and her five children in a fire in the village of Stary Kuvak in the Leninogorsk region of the republic has been completed. Lawyer Andrei Suchkov, who represents the interests of the injured party on the initiative of the human rights organization “Zona Prava,” reported this to Mediazona.

In the village of Rassvet, Aksay district, Rostov region, police shot dead a man who opened fire from the window of a high-rise building at passers-by, reports . Interfax “During the assault, the man offered active resistance, opened fire on police officers, and wounded one of them. As a result, the shooter was killed by return fire,” the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region told the agency. The police noted that they tried to negotiate with the man.